Create a simple Gold Medal in Photoshop

Photoshop

In this tutorial we will learn to create a simple Gold Medal using Photoshop CS6. You can use any other version of Photoshop as well. You are encouraged to experiment and change the steps and values shown in this video as per your imagination.

Step 1. Open Photoshop and click on File and then New. Or press Ctrl+N if you are using Windows.

Step 2. Now set the Name to “Gold Medal”. Set the dimension to 500x500 in pixels, i.e., width to 500 pixels and height to 500 pixels. Set the resolution to 72 Pixels/Inch, Color mode to “RGB color”, “8 bit”. And finally set the background contents to “White”.

Step 3. Select the Ellipse Tool (U)

Step 4. Draw a circle of width 400 and height 400 by pressing the Shift key while drawing. Set Stroke to Black and set Stroke width to 3 pt.